Will “Surgical Services Assistant” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
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Job Description
Assist surgeons during surgery by performing duties such as tissue retraction, insertion of tubes and intravenous lines, or closure of surgical wounds. Perform preoperative and postoperative duties to facilitate patient care.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2099.07
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surgical Assistants”.
Also Known As…
- Surgical Assistants
- Surgical Technician (Surgical Tech)
- Surgical Scrub Technician (Surgical Scrub Tech)
- Surgical First Assistant
- Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA)
- Gastrointestinal Technician (GI Technician)
- Certified Surgical Technician
- Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA)
- Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA)
- Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant (CRNFA)
- Certified First Assistant (CFA)
- Surgical Assistant-Certified (SA-C)
- Surgical Assistant
- Surgery Technician
- Operating Room Technician
- Operating Room Assistant
- First Assistant
- Assistant-at-Surgery
Tasks for “Surgical Services Assistant”
- Determine availability of necessary equipment or supplies for operative procedures.
- Assist in the insertion, positioning, or suturing of closed-wound drainage systems.
- Adjust and maintain operating room temperature, humidity, or lighting, according to surgeon's specifications.
- Pass instruments or supplies to surgeon during procedure.
- Remove patient hair or disinfect incision sites to prepare patient for surgery.
- Obtain or inspect sterile or non-sterile surgical equipment, instruments, or supplies.
- Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field.
- Assess skin integrity or other body conditions upon completion of the procedure to determine if damage has occurred from body positioning.
- Maintain an unobstructed operative field, using surgical retractors, sponges, or suctioning and irrigating equipment.
- Gather, arrange, or assemble instruments or supplies.
- Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.
- Prepare and apply sterile wound dressings.
- Assist in applying casts, splints, braces, or similar devices.
- Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures.
- Insert or remove urinary bladder catheters.
- Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
- Operate sterilizing devices.
- Transport patients to operating room.
- Discuss with surgeon the nature of the surgical procedure, including operative consent, methods of operative exposure, diagnostic or laboratory data, or patient-advanced directives or other needs.
- Assist members of surgical team with gowning or gloving.
- Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers.
- Verify the identity of patient or operative site.
- Monitor patient intra-operative status, including patient position, vital signs, or volume and color of blood.
- Assist in volume replacement or autotransfusion techniques.
- Incise tissue layers in lower extremities to harvest veins.
- Coordinate or participate in the positioning of patients, using body stabilizing equipment or protective padding to provide appropriate exposure for the procedure or to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment.
- Clamp, ligate, or cauterize blood vessels to control bleeding during surgical entry, using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, or electrocautery equipment.
- Postoperatively inject a subcutaneous local anesthetic agent to reduce pain.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pagers
- Urinary catheters
- Mayo stands
- Surgical masks
- Fluid warmers
- Surgical scalpels
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Flash sterilizers
- Surgical gloves
- Fiberoptic endoscopes
- Eye magnets
- Wound drains
- Specimen collection containers
- Surgical clamps
- Medical image processing printers
- Sterile drapes
- Cardiac monitoring equipment
- Sterile gowns
- Surgical trocars
- Argon beam coagulators
- Telethermometers
- Powered surgical drills
- Angiocaths
- Eye lasers
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Blood warming equipment
- C-arm tables
- Ethylene Oxide sterilizers
- Blanket warmer cabinets
- Desktop computers
- Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
- Surgical protective goggles
- Medical staple kits
- Hospital intercom equipment
- Surgical dermatomes
- Endoscopic camera/video systems
- Intravenous IV sets
- Pneumatic tourniquets
- Body stabilizers
- Nerve stimulators
- Head stabilizers
- Surgical robots
- Cast cutting saws
- Hypothermia units
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Anesthesia carts
- Laparoscopes
- Laptop computers
- Surgical retractors
- Hemostat clamps
- Cell savers
- Vascular clamps
- Surgical fracture tables
- Pressure steam autoclaves
- Suture kits
- Heart pacemakers
- Patient positioning devices
- Personal computers
- Surgical razors
- Patient transport stretchers
- Cauterizing equipment
- Suction machines
- Subcutaneous injection syringes
- MEDITECH software
- Supply documentation software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Patient tracking software
- Nursing documentation software
- Patient scheduling software
- Microsoft Excel
- Surgery workflow communication software